THE LA RAZA CRIME TIDAL WAVE - “These figures do not attempt to allege that foreign
nationals in the country illegally commit more
crimes than other groups,” the report states. “It
simply identifies thousands of crimes that should
not have occurred and thousands of victims that
should not have been victimized because the
perpetrator should not be here.”
CHARLOTTE CUTHBERTSON

Nearly five years after the greatest financial crash since
the Great Depression, triggered by rampant illegality and fraud on the part of
the major banks, not a single major institution or leading bank executive has
been indicted, let alone tried, convicted and jailed.

THE FINANCIAL ARMAGEDDON THAT AWAITS THE AMERICAN MIDDLE
CLASS IN 2014:

HOPE and CHANGE and endless lies and con jobs as his WALL
STREET DONORS’ LOOTING of AMERICA CONTINUES!

Having presided for the past five years over an unprecedented growth of
social inequality, President Barack Obama, down in the polls because of popular
indignation over his fraudulent health care “reform,” adopted the unlikely pose
of tribune of egalitarian values in a speech on Wednesday at the pro-Democratic
Party Center for American Progress in Washington DC.

In typical fashion, Obama decried the growth of inequality in America as
though he were an innocent bystander and had absolutely no role in the process
he was criticizing. The most remarkable aspect of the speech was the contempt
for the intelligence of the American people it expressed.

O

BAMA – THE
SOCIOPATH BANKSTERS FUNDED AND ILLEGALS REELECTED.

OBAMA
IS A SOCIOPATH. HE CAN LIE OUT OF HIS BIG MOUTH ABOUT ANYTHING AND THEN GO
SERVE HIS CRIMINAL BANKSTER DONORS AND LA RAZA!

But
the latest New York Times/CBS News poll shows something that is a
troublesome sign for the White House. Only 30 percent of
Americans believe that the president “cares a lot” about “the needs and
problems of people” like themselves.

Barack
Obama… the man that conned an entire nation and still called it “CHANGE”… but
was only Bush’s 3rd & 4th terms.

$3.39T Quantitative Explosion: Fed Owns More
Treasuries and MBSs Than Publicly Held Debt Amassed From Washington Through Clinton.

WHY BIG
PHARMA LOVES BIG OBAMA… and his looting of America…

The
more information that comes to light about the plans being offered through
Obamacare demonstrates that, in their rapacious drive to increase profits,
private insurance companies are not only charging steep premiums—some 30
percent higher than in the present individual market—but are peddling cut-rate
policies with staggering
out-of-pocket costs, which also limit access to doctors and hospitals.

NO ONE HAS WORKED HARDER FOR CRONY CRIMINAL BANKSTER THAN
BARACK OBAMA… JAMIE DIMON IS ONE OF OBAMA’S BIGGEST CONTRIBUTORS!

Why aren’t the Wall Street criminals prosecuted?

By Barry Grey
7 January 2014

In May 2012, only days after JPMorgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon revealed that his
bank had lost billions of dollars in speculative bets, President Barack Obama
publicly defended the multi-millionaire CEO, calling him “one of the smartest
bankers we’ve got.” What Obama did not mention is that Dimon is a criminal.

JPMorgan
is not the exception; it is the rule. Virtually every major bank that operates
on Wall Street has settled charges of fraud and criminality on a staggering
scale. In 2011, the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations released a
630-page report on the financial crash of 2008 documenting what the committee
chairman called “a financial snake pit rife with greed, conflicts of interest
and wrongdoing.”

These
multiple crimes by serial lawbreakers have had very real and very destructive
consequences. The entire world has been plunged into an economic slump that has
already lasted more than five years and shows no signs of abating. Tens of
millions of families have lost their homes as a result of predatory mortgages
pushed by JPMorgan and other Wall Street banks.

The
more information that comes to light about the plans being offered through
Obamacare demonstrates that, in their rapacious drive to increase profits,
private insurance companies are not only charging steep premiums—some 30
percent higher than in the present individual market—but are peddling cut-rate
policies with staggering
out-of-pocket costs, which also limit access to doctors and hospitals.

NO ONE HAS WORKED HARDER FOR CRONY CRIMINAL BANKSTER THAN
BARACK OBAMA… JAMIE DIMON IS ONE OF OBAMA’S BIGGEST CONTRIBUTORS!

Why aren’t the Wall Street criminals prosecuted?

By Barry Grey
7 January 2014

In May 2012, only days after JPMorgan Chase’s Jamie Dimon revealed that his
bank had lost billions of dollars in speculative bets, President Barack Obama
publicly defended the multi-millionaire CEO, calling him “one of the smartest
bankers we’ve got.” What Obama did not mention is that Dimon is a criminal.

JPMorgan
is not the exception; it is the rule. Virtually every major bank that operates
on Wall Street has settled charges of fraud and criminality on a staggering
scale. In 2011, the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations released a
630-page report on the financial crash of 2008 documenting what the committee
chairman called “a financial snake pit rife with greed, conflicts of interest
and wrongdoing.”

These
multiple crimes by serial lawbreakers have had very real and very destructive
consequences. The entire world has been plunged into an economic slump that has
already lasted more than five years and shows no signs of abating. Tens of
millions of families have lost their homes as a result of predatory mortgages
pushed by JPMorgan and other Wall Street banks.

DEMS PARTY of ILLEGALS

THE LA RAZA “THE RACE”
DEMOCRAT PARTY… DEDICATED TO CUTTING SOCIAL PROGRAMS FOR AMERICANS (Legals) TO
BUILD THE MEXICAN WELFARE STATE IN AMERICA.

THE DEMS PROMISE LEGALIZATION
of MEXICO’S LOOTING WITH AMNESTY, OR CONTINUED NON-ENFORCEMENT, OPEN BORDERS,
NO E-VERIFY and NO LEGAL NEED APPLY!

THERE ARE MILLIONS OF ILLEGALS IN OUR JOBS AND BILLIONS IN
WELFARE HANDED OVER TO ILLEGALS SO THEY KEEP COMING AND KEEP WAGES DEPRESSED
FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE POLITICIANS’ PAYMASTERS!

Wall Street swindles, not pensions, behind financial crisis in Detroit and other US cities

By Thomas Gaist 8 January 2014

The political establishment and the media have relentlessly promoted the myth that the crisis in Detroit and in cities across the US is a product of overgenerous spending on social services and benefits, with public employee pension liabilities cited as the main culprit.

In reality, the driving force behind the Detroit bankruptcy has been a predatory interest rate swap foisted on the city by Wall Street bankers, which was signed by former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick in 2005. Scores of states, municipalities, school districts and various other public entities entered into similar swap contracts over the past decade. These deals have enabled the world’s most powerful banking houses to systematically plunder public budgets across the nation, creating the conditions for the rising wave of municipal bankruptcies.

The interest rate swap deals amount to complex bets on the direction of future interest rates. In the mid-2000s state and local governments entered into these bets in an environment of rising interest rates, seeking desperately to offset their growing financial costs.

Far from intervening on behalf of Detroit and other cities victimized by these deals, however, the Obama administration and SEC have done everything to protect these financial criminals and reward them even further.

When the Federal Reserve pushed rates to near zero after the 2008 collapse, the swap arrangements forced local governments to continue paying high rates despite the new conditions. The swap deals, moreover, came with massive built-in termination fees, which cost cities hundreds of millions of dollars to “unwind” them. In Detroit, Orr is seeking to pay Bank of America and UBS $165 million in termination fees, while offering only pennies on the dollar towards unfunded pension obligations owed to 23,500 retired city workers.

Interest rates were driven down in the wake of 2008 both by the political decisions of the Federal Reserve, as well as the deliberate manipulations of the London Interbank Offering Rate or LIBOR carried out by the global banking giants. Two of the main financial players in the Detroit bankruptcy, UBS and Barclays, were both heavily involved in the LIBOR-rigging scandal.

The LIBOR index set interest rates for trillions of dollars in housing and other loans, including nearly all subprime mortgages before the 2008 crash, and financial derivatives such as interest rate swaps. American municipalities also borrowed around 75 percent of their money through financial products that were linked to the LIBOR.

The manipulation of this crucial index—which had the effect of minimizing payments owed by the banks on the swap deals and forcing cities to pay far higher interest rates—has prompted several cities to launch legal actions against the predatory activities of the financial houses.

AREN'T THE FOLLOWING BANKSTERS ALL MAJOR DONORS OF BARACK OBAMA?

Baltimore sued Bank of America, Barclays, Citibank, HSBC, JP Morgan, Lloyds, UBS, and WestLB in 2011 over their involvement in LIBOR rigging. Philadelphia launched a similar suit in 2013 against Bank of America, Barclays, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, JP Morgan Chase, Royal Bank of Canada, Royal Bank of Scotland, and UBS AG. San Diego and Sacramento counties have also sued major banks in relation to LIBOR manipulation.

The November 2011 bankruptcy of Jefferson County (Birmingham), Alabama, at the time the largest municipal bankruptcy in US history, was driven by an interest rate swap deal signed by the city with JP Morgan. JP Morgan was charged with paying millions in bribes to officials as part of the deal, including former Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford, who was subsequently convicted on corruption related charges. JP Morgan paid a fine of $75 million to the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), with none of its own personnel serving any jail time.

In an article for Bloomberg, “Wall Street Takes $4 Billion From Taxpayers as Swaps Backfire,” Michael McDonald wrote, “California’s water resources department this year spent $305 million unwinding interest-rate bets that backfired, handing over the money to banks led by New York-based Morgan Stanley. North Carolina paid $59.8 million in August, enough to cover the annual salaries of about 1,400 full-time state employees. Reading, Pennsylvania, which sought protection in the state’s fiscally distressed communities program, got caught on the wrong end of the deals, costing it $21 million, equal to more than a year’s worth of real-estate taxes.”

In a 2010 article, “How Big Banks’ Greek-Style Schemes Bankrupt States,” Mike Elk of the Huffington Post wrote: “As almost all reasoned economists had predicted in the wake of a deepening recession, the federal government aggressively drove down interest rates to save the big banks. This created opportunity for banks—whose variable payments on the derivative deals were tied to interest rates set largely by the Federal Reserve and Government—to profit excessively at the expense of state and local governments. While banks are still collecting fixed rates of from 4 percent to 6 percent, they are now regularly paying state and local governments as little as a tenth of one percent on the outstanding bonds—with no end to the low rates in sight.”

Elk continued, “Banks and states were supposed to be paying equal rates. However, with the fed lowering interest rates, which was anticipated, now states and local governments are paying about 50 times what the banks are paying. Talk about a windfall profit the banks are making off of the suffering of local economies.”

According to economist Susan Ozawa, “the states and municipalities were entering into these long maturity swaps out of necessity. They were desperate, if not naive, and couldn’t look to the Federal Government or Congress and had to turn themselves over to the banks.”

Speaking to the Real News on the subject, Tom Ferguson, professor of political science at the University of Massachusetts Boston, said that cities and states, which he described as “public sector prey,” were “basically just shoveling out millions of dollars on a decline in rates” saying that the interest rate swaps had “all the looks of the same type of deal as the mortgage story, where predatory deals were used.” Ferguson further cited the “tacit collusion of the press” in this process, saying that the “daily papers didn’t cover it.”

The US government has made every effort to assure that the fees owed to the banks will be protected in the bankruptcy process, even as labor agreements are torn up and workers lose their jobs and pensions.

Exemptions have been embedded in the bankruptcy codes that provide a “safe haven” for the banks and ensure payment of their swap deals, using the bogus argument that if the banks are not paid in full, grave damage to the financial system will result.

Entire cities are being used as collateral, opening the way for wholesale plunder of municipal assets by the same institutions, whose criminal activities crashed the economy. The Federal Reserve’s policy of lowering interest rates has provided a windfall for the banks while driving cities and cities and states over the financial cliff. This manufactured crisis has, in turn, been exploited by the Obama administration and both big business parties to hand over trillions in pension funds and other public assets to the financial kleptocracy that rules America.